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Major Features of the Executive MBA Degree
The Executive MBA program (EMBA) at Kent State is designed to be highly personalized, with an interactive classroom and online experience designed to prepare students for managerial positions of significant responsibility. This Executive MBA degree program is an academically enriching, comprehensive and challenging professional education that has produced nearly 1,200 graduates since the program's inception in 1978. Among the many factors that influenced these students to enroll in the EMBA program are:
- Full accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
- Concentrated 18-month program (39 credit hours)
- Comprehensive and participative approach to management study
- An Executive MBA curriculum that emphasizes management skills and global issues
- A three day Beginning Residency that develops communication and teamwork at the program outset
- International business experience (IBE) a trip abroad for applied learning experience
- Highly qualified and experienced graduate faculty
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Pre-draft strategy: Think about it
Think about it. When you're rapping about fantasy sports with a stranger at the bar or while chattering away on IM with your friends, what do you talk about 99.9 percent of the time? Player rankings, right? This guy is better than that guy. I hate Player X and will never own him. I love Player Y and want to bear his children.
Whether you're new to the fantasy game, a grizzled veteran or a so-called expert, we all do the same thing. It's not without merit, of course. If you don't have a sound opinion on which player is better than another you will have no hope of winning your league.
But ranking your players is just the beginning of the process. What we honestly should be talking about 99.9 percent of the time is pre-draft strategy, because knowing how to construct the best team possible is how you actually win championships. That's why we draft our teams live rather than go straight down a cheat sheet, taking the top player available each turn.
Consider the NBA. How often do we see NBA teams acquire a ton of talented players, only to repeatedly come up short like the Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks? Meanwhile a well-constructed team can win championships with less overall talent, like the Detroit Pistons did in 2004. In the NBA, it's often chemistry, too many players with similar skill sets, or a lack of depth at one position that often derails the title hopes of a talented team. Chemistry obviously doesn't play a role in fantasy, but having too many players with the same stat production, a lack of depth at one position, or having too many risky players can derail our title hopes.
Let's take a look at some tried and true methods to help you construct the best team possible during your fantasy hoops drafts.
Know your league rules
This seems about as basic as it gets, but we've all made screwups like thinking a league started two centers, instead of one. One simple mistake like that could wreck your whole roster. Think of the potential ramifications. You could end up reaching for that second center and miss out on a breakout star in the middle rounds, or you could take a decent center with your third pick instead of a sure-fire stud shooting guard.
In fact, you need to think through each rule and the potential ramifications of both good and bad draft-day decisions.
What's your scoring system?
If it's rotisserie, then a guy like Dwight Howard will sink your free throw category. If it's nine-category roto, then the 3.4 turnovers Dwyane Wade averaged last season might make you think twice about taking him third overall. Is this a head-to-head league? In a category-based league (where you get the weekly win if you outperform your opponent in more categories), you can draft Howard, toss out the FT category and focus the rest of your draft on winning the other categories, knowing that you have a great start in rebounds, blocks and field goal percentage. If it's a points-based system (in which you earn a certain amount of points for each rebound, block, etc.), you'll want to determine what that scoring system stresses and how it affects the stat production of your players. Are shot-blockers rewarded more than 3-point shooters? Are turnovers really costly?
What are your roster size and limits?
If you have eight people in a league and use only 10 roster spots, everyone's rosters will be full of quality players. Because every player on every roster is sure to produce, you'll want to focus on having balanced production in all categories. Odds are, in a small league like that, you'll have to be near the top of every category by season's end to win (i.e., you can't "punt" a category). On the other hand, if you have 14 teams and 13 roster spots, you had better make sure you have a good handle on the values of the top 180-plus players. That's because not every player on every roster will produce, so the more low-end players you have giving you quality stats, the bigger advantage you have overall.
This is especially true in leagues in which players' position eligibility is defined loosely. You'll have a lot more centers available if guys like Tim Duncan and Amar'e Stoudemire are granted both PF and C eligibility. And there will be a lot more SGs and SFs if all swingman are granted both SG and SF eligibility in your league.
On the other hand, if your league has very strict roster requirements and position eligibility, then you'll have to pay very close attention while filling out your roster during your draft. Say your league requires two each at PG, SG, SF, PF and C and has no flex spots. You'll be in a tight bind if you wait until the middle rounds to address your PG and C positions, especially if few players are granted eligibility at dual positions.
Think about your draft position
Ideally, your commissioner will let you know the draft order well in advance. But even if you let ESPN's system randomize your draft order, you'll find out your draft spot an hour before the draft begins, and that's enough time to at least give it some serious thought.
I believe this is the most important part of your pre-draft strategy. Think through your first pick and then beyond it. Consider what your team should look like after the first four or five rounds. Map it out.
If you have the first overall pick, you aren't just deciding whether you want LeBron James or Chris Paul. You are deciding what the next few players you draft should look like. The beauty of taking LeBron is that he gives you stats in every category, with FTs being his only risk. That means you have a lot of versatility with your second and third picks on the turn, though you'll want to make sure they can shoot free throws. You might consider Kevin Martin, who drains a ton of FTs at a great clip to cover LeBron's risk at the stripe. For your third pick, you could just take the best player available, since you have a good backbone with your first two picks.
If you take CP3, you won't have to worry about dimes or steals for a while, but you'll want to add some scoring, treys and blocks. Maybe take a swing at Josh Smith or Duncan with your second pick and Martin or Paul Pierce with your third pick.
If you're drafting last in the first round of a snake draft, you'll get two picks in a row. This gives you a nice advantage, because you can pair up two players to make the foundation of your team. If you can get Deron Williams and Al Jefferson, you'll have a good base of stats for your team in every category except threes and steals. But maybe Stoudemire and Chris Bosh are clearly the two best players remaining, in your opinion. Nothing wrong with taking them, but it will affect your next few rounds, as you'll have little need for big men after that.
You should literally map it out. Get your cheat sheet set and mark off where your first-, second-, third- and fourth-round picks will fall. Then you'll see which players you can get with each pick (e.g., if you draft first of 12 teams, you know you will get three of your top 25 ranked players). Examine the players ranked just ahead of your draft spots carefully, so that when it's your turn to draft, you're just deciding between two or three players whom you've already studied carefully. Then it's just a matter of determining whether you want to take the best player of that group or set your roster up in a certain way.
Know your fellow owners
If you're in a number of different leagues, you know that some owners trade and some don't. In the fantasy sports industry, most of us have a slew of leagues. With limited time to spend on each of them, many industry leagues have few, if any, trades. So when you draft your team, you know that aside from waiver-wire work, that's probably going to be your team for the season.
In leagues in which you know you have little chance of trading, you need to construct your team during the draft. You can't have a big hole in rebounds and blocks, or you probably can't win. You also can't have a complete dud starting at point guard and no depth at that position, or you'll have a brutal time making any headway in your assists column.
On the other hand, if everyone in your league loves to trade, you can lean more toward drafting the best player available each round, because you know you can tweak your roster by selling from your strong categories or positions to fill out your weak ones.
If you really know your owners personally, you can take advantage of that, too. Suppose a guy in your league is known for overpaying in trades, and you also know his favorite player in the world is Monta Ellis. You might need a power forward, but you could draft the guard Ellis, because you can be reasonably sure you can flip Ellis in a trade for a better player than the power forwards left in the draft.
Also consider drafting extra players at one position to trade them, especially in leagues with tight roster settings, like two-center leagues.
Filling out your roster
I pay far less attention to rankings in the latter rounds of drafts and far more attention to players I am targeting. I recommend going through the bottom third of your cheat sheet and highlighting players you would like to have on your team. While there are reasons why you might rank Randy Foye below Peja Stojakovic in a vacuum, I will be targeting the younger Foye. He still has a lot of potential for a big season, unlike the old, broken down Stojakovic, who has nearly no chance to have a big season.
In the latter rounds, I'm focused primarily on upside; players who have a shot at exploding, whether through natural development of their talent, or because the only thing stopping their explosion is a brittle or overrated guy ahead of them on the depth chart.
Don't get cute, though. If every player you take in the bottom third of your draft is just as likely to do nothing as to explode, you're probably going to be in trouble. Make sure you have at least two or three guys you can bank on to give you some production every week, and surround them with skilled guys who can outperform their draft spot.
I'm certain that if you heed my advice on pre-draft strategy, you'll have your best drafts to date. The more prepared you are before a draft, the fewer mistakes and more correct decisions you'll make during the draft. Think about it.
Tom Carpenter is a fantasy basketball analyst for ESPN.com.
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Sleepyhead have centered around singer/guitarist Chris O'Rourke and drummer Rachael McNally since 1989 when they formed while students at NYU. With a sound that was both noisy and winsome, Sleepyhead released records on Slumberland, Homestead and other labels in the '90s. O'Rourke and McNally, now married, still make music and with new bassist Derej Van Beever, Sleepyhead just released Wild Sometimes, their first album in 15 years, via stalwart Chicago indie label Carrot Top. You can stream the whole thing below and check out the video for "Life is Hard" which co-stars the bandmembers' kids.
Sleepyhead have a couple live dates coming up, including one at NYC's Union Hall on Saturday (9/13) with The Special Pillow (featuring former Sleepyhead bassist and Hypnolovewheel member Dan Cuddy) and Tim Foljahn (Two Dollar Guitar). Tickets for that show are on sale. The band also have a Boston-area show coming up and dates are listed, along with video and album streams, below...
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It's not really news anymore that artists have been emerging all over the world who stylistically fit the description of "UK bass," even if they don't hail from the location that the genre implies. We've heard great interpretations of the music from NYC's FaltyDL and Montreal's Jacques Greene (just to name a couple), and with his Stay Forever EP that came out this past June, San Francisco producer Barrett Richards, aka Kastle, continues to offer his spin on it from his home out west. Stay Forever follows two equally impressive EPs from 2011 (Time Traveler and So You) and some various singles, all of which fit nicely into the post-dubstep niche of atmospheric bass, clunking garage beats, and chopped vocal manipulations. You can stream some songs from those EPs and Kastle's remix of Frank Ocean's "Pyramids," below.
Kastle, who you may have seen with Kingdom, Dunes, and Sleepyhead at Drom this past July, will be supporting Stay Forever with a tour of North America and Australia/New Zealand which kicks off this Friday (9/28) in Barrett's hometown of San Francisco. The tour brings him back to NYC on October 6 at Glasslands for a show with Sleepyhead, Lamin Fofana (who just played a Weird Magic party), and Sonkin. Tickets for that show are on sale now.
A list of all tour dates, the tour flier, and those song streams are below...
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As mentioned, Bass Squad are hosting the "On the Rocks" summer residency at Drom, which kicked off in May with Baauer and Flosstradamus, continued in June with Nicky Da B and Heartbreak, and in July with Kingdom and Sleepyhead. The August party at Drom goes down tonight (8/2) with LOL Boys, Sound Pellegrino, Thermal Team, Sleepyhead, Crisp, and Alex English. It's a 21+ party, $15 admission, and runs from 10 PM to 4 AM. The flier for tonight's show is below.
LOL Boys just released their Changes EP, which includes four original songs and remixes of the title track by Shlohmo and Anenon. Though it's a little hard to their name seriously, LOL Boys' music is a different story. The new EP works as the chill, sunny afternoon cousin of the ghostly Shlohmo, who they've shared multiple bills with. All vocals on the album (though heavily manipulated) were performed live by guest singers Heart Streets and Angelina Lucero. You can stream the EP in full below or purchase it for $6 on bandcamp.
Speaking of Bass Squad, they're also doing a show at Slate on August 30 with Brenmar (who plays NYC tonight), Sinjin Hawke (who plays NYC twice on Saturday [8/4]), and XXYYXX.
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36 teams took part in the World Cup qualifiers and only 16 made the finals. Surprisingly, Sweden and Spain, 1950's finalists didn't make it this time. Argentina, didn't show up again, and neither did the strong USSR team. South Korea, Scotland and Turkey make their debut appearance (the last two teams chose not to participate in the previous competition). This time, the first round was played in groups, each group was made up of two seeded and two drawn teams, and they were to play "weaker with stronger". The stronger teams were Uruguay, Hungary, Austria, England, Italy, France, Turkey, and Brasil. A revelation of the games was the West Germany team, that wasn't given any chance for getting out of the group after a loss to Hungary. West Germany got better and better with each match: they crushed Turkey twice (4:1 and 7:1) and defeated Yugoslavia and Austria to face favorite Hungary once again in the finals. The Hungarian team made the final game after heated matches with Brasil and Uruguay (both games 4:2 wins). In the last game of the competition Hungary dominated as expected, but for most of the game the score was tied. The decisive goal came suddenly after a counter attack of the German team and gave West Germany the Rimet Cup. Austria was the 3rd. place winner. Top players of the tournament: Ocwirk (Austria), D. Santos, Bauer, Julinho (Brasil), Bozsik, Czibor, Hidegkuti, Kocsis, Puskás (Hungary), Turek, Rahn, F. Walter (West Germany), Varela, Schiaffino (Uruguay).
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Schalk Brits will miss the first three Premiership games of next season after being banned for hitting his Saracens' team-mate Owen Farrell during Saturday's match between the Barbarians and the British and Irish Lions in Hong Kong.
Brits, who was playing for the Baa-Baas, was handed a three-week suspension at an International Rugby Board disciplinary hearing in Hong Kong on Sunday.
He was cited after hitting Farrell with his arm during the Lions' tour opener at Hong Kong Stadium. The hooker did escape a sending-off following the incident but was shown a yellow card for his actions.
Brits, who had been cited by IRB commissioner Simon Ryan, appeared at a hearing before judicial officer Steve Lewis.
Lewis decided that Brits' offence was mid-range but a possible five weeks sanction was reduced to three because of "compelling mitigating factors".
A statement released after the hearing read: "The IRB's sanctions for foul play have been established on the basis that a one-week period of suspension would normally result in a player missing one match.
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Aviva Premiership match of the 2013-14 season, unless the judicial officer confirms in writing that any pre-season match shall be considered meaningful for the purpose of regulation 17.19.11 (d), in which case such a match shall be included as one of the three matches."
Referee Steve Walsh initially penalised Farrell for reacting to Brits but then reversed his decision after consulting television replays.
Saturday's game was Brits's final outing of the season.
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Gandhi is here.
An 8-foot statue of the bespectacled human rights leader, holding his famous staff, now stands in front of the Old County Courthouse.
"This is the man who taught the world about the power of nonviolence," said Garry Bhojwani, president of the Charlotte Asian Heritage Association, standing next to the statue. "Everyone knows his work, his method of peace, of sacrifice, of love."
On Tuesday, contractors hoisted the statue of Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi, made of bronze and weighing 1,700 pounds, onto a concrete foundation, built to withstand 150 mph winds, at Trade and Alexander streets.
On Sunday, it will be officially unveiled at a public festival celebrating Indian and Asian cultures.
A few members of the local Indian community gathered around the statue Tuesday afternoon, prayed, and sprinkled rice and powder on the feet of the statue as a blessing and sign of respect.
"Mohandas Gandhi is the father of our universe," said Nimish Bhatt, local director of the Universal Vedic Cultural and Educational Foundation. "Even Martin Luther King Jr. learned from him how to fight with nonviolence."
Three years ago, Bhojwani, a real estate investor, said he noticed that many major cities had Gandhi statues and decided Charlotte should also have one.
He created the nonprofit organization, lobbied for county approval, found a sculptor, and underwrote the $35,000 needed to create the statue.
The statue, depicting Gandhi's famous 241-mile march in 1930 to protest the British salt tax in colonial India, will be the centerpiece of a new park named in his honor.
It is a gift from the Asian Heritage Association to Mecklenburg County as part of local efforts to teach young people how one man, eschewing violence, changed the course of Indian, American and world history through love, dedication and perseverance instead of violence.
"When you see this statue of Mahatma Gandhi," Bhojwani said, "you feel in your body the love and peace and sacrifice he stood for."
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Greetings! I am brand new to this forum, so I hope my question isn't just too .... uh .... stupid! I recently purchased a gorgeous, large caladium which I have growing presently in a pot in my kitchen. Suddenly, the vast majority of the stems are bending and breaking .... is there a particular reason for this? I assume with this new development I should prop them with a circular frame, but could something else be the culprit? THANK YOU! Susan |
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I wish to take issue with Lenny Rodin on two points he made in his Nov. 15 letter, "A common-$ense answer."
First, he thought the Chronicle stretched the point by saying President Obama had earned a new mandate in its Nov. 8 editorial "Can we talk?" Folks, when a candidate receives three million more popular votes than his opponent, and wins by 332 to 206 electoral votes, that's a mandate! Obama beat out six presidents, starting with John F. Kennedy.
Mr. Rodin's second point was that the Republicans have a large majority in the House. True. But "a more true mandate" I take issue with, for two reasons. In the 2010 election the GOP captured 12 state governorships and legislatures, as well as winning a stunning victory in the House. This power gave the GOP the right to gerrymander their congressional districts in their favor, based on the 2010 Census data. It's true that the House has a large Republican majority. However, the Democratic minority received millions more votes than the larger GOP! In my view, the Republicans' so-called "true mandate" is a moot issue.
One closing point concerning mandate power. It appears to me that voters tilted that power in favor of the Democrats. They will control the Senate 55-45 in 2013. Add to that the clear mandate Obama has and the larger issue is no longer moot.


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American pilots can breathe easier. Russia isn't going to sell Syria the advanced S-300 air defense missile. Not that the Air Force wants to strike Syria, but still.
American pilots can breathe easier. Russia isn't going to sell Syria the advanced S-300 air defense missile. Not that the Air Force wants to strike Syria, but still.
A four-man Special Operations team in Tripoli ahead of last September's deadly Benghazi attack couldn't have saved U.S. diplomats, the Pentagon says.
The Pentagon says it doesn't have evidence linking the Syrian regime to the recent sarin gas attack. But it also says it believes dictator Bashar Assad still has control of his deadly chem arsenal.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made it official: The Obama administration is considering sending guns, missiles and other weapons to Syria's rebels.
President Obama is considering arming the Syrian rebels. Too bad arming them is unlikely to mean their victory. That's more likely to mean Americanizing the conflict, and getting bogged down in it.
President Obama meant to box in Syrian dictator Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons. Instead he may have boxed himself into a military escapade he doesn't want.
The U.S. intelligence community has uncovered strong evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. Several blood samples, taken from multiple people, have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin.
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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today named Motorola legend Martin Cooper, leader of the Motorola team that developed the first mobile phone, as the recipient of its highest honor – the Charles Stark Draper Prize. Cooper, along with a small group of other world-renowned engineers, were all recognized at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. for their early research in cellular phones, which opened the door to the era of mobile telecommunications and, ultimately, mobile computing.
On April 3, 1973, Cooper cemented his place in history by becoming the first person to successfully make a handheld cellphone call in public. At the time, Cooper was general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division and leader of a team of engineers that had been working on mobile communication technologies. Standing on Sixth Avenue in New York City, before going into a press conference, Cooper famously placed this groundbreaking call using a Motorola DynaTAC – a device that weighed 2.2 lbs., had 35 minutes of talk-time and a battery life of 20 minutes, all of which was revolutionary at the time.
"Long before we messaged people in real-time, had instant maps for anywhere, or streamed movies on our smartphones, Martin Cooper and his team laid the foundations of mobile phone technology," said Iqbal Arshad, SVP, Global Product Development, Motorola Mobility. "When we look at everything that's been accomplished thanks to the hard work of Martin and his team, we can't think of anyone more deserving of this honor."
Widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for engineering, the Charles Stark Draper Prize was established and endowed by Draper Laboratory in 1988 to honor its founder, Dr. Charles Stark Draper, who pioneered inertial navigation. The award recognizes those who have contributed to the advancement of engineering and aims to help improve public awareness of the importance of engineering and technology.
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Really, the whole browser plugin idea is a grand, failed experiment.
So, for example, Flash as a browser plugin is a failed experiment? I think not. There's reality and then there's idealism. Nothing wrong with the latter, but the former is pretty much unaffected by it. If you believe in it strongly enough, you can attempt to change the reality. Build something and see if enough others find it worthwhile. Kind of like what these guys are trying to do with WebVision. Even if the project you reference was hugely successful, there's nothing wrong with competition.


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Sat, Feb 16, 13 at 10:35
I have been looking at this kitchen in a Better Homes and Gardens Kitchen Idea File book that I have had for over two years. I have never seen another kitchen with this type of framed wooden backsplash. In the photos provided they never show what they did behind the stove for a backsplash. Has anyone seen this before? We are thinking about doing this in our kitchen. Sorry the photos are not the best. I took photographs of the books photos. |
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There are many different ways to do a wooden BS. I have seen something similar in my KD's showroom. It's a nice look and takes the guess work out of an entire BS, but you still have to figure something out behind the range. |
- Posted by beekeeperswife (My Page) on Sat, Feb 16, 13 at 11:01
I did one in my butler's pantry. I really like it. (goes around the sides, and comes out as far as the uppers extend) |
BKW, that is truly gorgeous, as is everything you do. |
jenny_from_the_block did this in her gorgeous kitchen. Again, she did something different behind the range: |
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I've searched the forums and seen many people having downloadable products woes, but mine appears to be a new issue.
I have a new Magento 1.2.1 installation I'm trying to get live. After much PHP manipulation I finally got the flash uploader to upload my 41MB file. Everything appears to work except the file is corrupt once it's downloaded. It is a Windows EXE file. I can FTP the file out of the download directory back to my machine and it runs fine. I even moved the file to the root of my site and downloaded it in a browser and it runs fine. If I purchase the product in Magento then download it from My Downloadable Products, it downloads just fine, but then says it is corrupt when I try to run it.
Has anyone else had this problem and fixed it?
Thanks in advance.
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I uploaded the file to another of my websites that I *know* can download files using Drupal/Ubercart. I then reset the product to have the URL point to that file and repurchased the product. Same result. Download okay, file corrupt and wont execute.
Again, all help appreciated. Thanks.
This is killing me from going live. Has anyone seen this, and more importantly, fixed it?
A little more information as I keep trying to correct this.
I've narrowed it down to any Windows installer executable files created with the most recent version on Inno Setup. Other installer executables I upload work fine after being downloaded thru Magento. Apparently, something Inno Setup is doing to construct the EXE is choking the way Magento downloads it. My Inno Setup installers work fine when downloaded every other way I try it. just not when downloaded thru Magento.
I'd rather not have to redo my installer jobs in another package, but I may not have a choice if no-one can find another solution.
I am having the same issue. I paid $$$ for varien support and have yet to find a resolution. We moved all files to Amazon S3, switched to a fully dedicated server and disabled mod_deflate on the server which I guess can sometimes interfere with the downloads. All our files are .zip files but some are <80MB. It seems the server is closing the connection or incorrectly encrypting the download urls.
Anyone have any ideas?
I fanally got this resolved over the weekend - or at least I figured out a work around for it. It turned out to be the way I was constructing my install file. I use Inno Setup to build my install package. I had the following set in my [Setup] section:
Compression=lzma SolidCompression=yes
I was able to get it to finally work by changing my Inno script to use:
Compression=zip SolidCompression=no
I am assuming there's something about the lzma compression and/or the SolidCompression setting in Inno that goofed up Magento. Everything else I have that downloads files worked okay with it, but Magento didn't like it. I wish this could be fixed in Magento because now my install files for download are a good 50% larger. I guess I'll have to live with that unless the Magento guys can fix it at a later date.
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The folks at Estately.com have assembled a list of U.S. cities with the most douchebags using a highly unusual metric. They counted up the number of dudes who listed Facebook "interests" in ten douchey categories: Nickelback, Monster Energy, Axe, Don Ed Hardy, Vin Diesel, Chris Brown, Tosh.0, Mixed Martial Arts, Dane Cook and Bluetooth. And whaddya know: Two Colorado cities made the top ten! Which ones? We've photo-illustrated the roster, which features Estately blurbs and the douchebag category in which each city rated highest. Count them down below.Big photos below.
R&B singer Chris Brown is hemorrhaging fans worldwide, but not in Norfolk. The convicted domestic abuser and total douche is a loathsome troll, but Norfolk still maintains a loyal base of support for Team Breezy. Ladies of Norfolk be warned: Seven percent of Norfolk men are openly fans of Chris Brown. That's a definite black eye on the city.Highest douchebag category rating: Chris Brown -- 2
If World War III ever breaks out, and D-bags form their own army, Toledo will definitely be the bunker they cower in. One can imagine them now, busily bragging about all the awesome war they're going to wage, all while holding each other back from engaging the enemy. With so many douchebags in Toledo, it's surprising the city's own Katie Holmes had to go all the way to Hollywood to meet Tom Cruise.Highest douchebag category rating: Dane Cook -- 3
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>> After Hannah MacGibbon's first Chloe collection, critics seemed ready to give her a bit more time to settle in at Chloe, as if they wanted her to succeed in the brand. And although she sent out a similarly pegged pants and muted colors in her Lauren Hutton-esque Fall 2009 collection, she's still getting encouragement — WWD noted that while MacGibbon is "still finding her way at Chloe," the collection "showed progress." Suzy Menkes was even more laudatory, hailing MacGibbon's coats as "some of the best outerwear in Paris," and writing that the designer made "a strong show that looked like she was taking the brand forward." Now, if she could just harness some of the excitement that surrounded the brand under other regimes . . .
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Comparators & Op Amps May They Never Meet1 (Or Good Advice From Mr. Punch) | |
Q. Why buy an expensive comparator when an op amp is just as good? |
Comparators have differential inputs and a rail-to-rail output. So do op amps. They have low offset, high gain and high common mode rejection ratio (CMRR). So do op amps. But comparators are designed to work open-loop, drive logic circuits, work at high speed even when over-driven, and accept large differential input voltages. Op amps are intended to work closed-loop, driving simple resistive or reactive loads and are not designed to recover quickly from overdrive. But op amps are cheaper, often come in four- or even six-packs (so often one is spare and begging to be used), and compared to most comparators, have better offset and bias current specifications.
Using an op amp as a comparator may lead to difficulties for three major reasons: speed, logic drive capability, and various effects of input structures.
Comparators are designed to work with large differential inputs, while op amps are intended for closed-loop operation with both inputs at very similar potentials. If an op amp sees a differential input voltage of even a few millivolts its internal circuitry may saturate. Recovery may be very slow and recovery time may vary considerably with the level of over-drive and from device to device. Such variability and loss of speed may be unwelcome in a comparator.
If an op amp has rail-to-rail output and is operated on the same supplies as the saturating logic it is driving (CMOS or TTL) then interfacing is not hard. But if the op amp and logic supplies differ then additional interface circuitry, which may be quite complex, is necessary to produce the correct levels.
Finally, op amp inputs usually have high impedance and low bias current. But if a differential input voltage of more than a few hundred millivolts is applied to them this may no longer be the case, and all sorts of less than ideal3 behaviour may occur. Higher levels of over-drive may also do minor damage to an op amp's input stages, resulting in slowly accumulating long-term changes in performance which may be overlooked during laboratory development.
1This is an allusion to a traditional British Army toast: "Wives and sweethearts may they never meet!"
2 Punch's Almanac (English humorous magazine) - 1845
3 "Less than ideal" is marketing-speak for "crazy"
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8 Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I visit him. | 8 Turn and flee, hide in deep caves, you who live in Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him. |
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